To me, all art forms are similar, they are about the emotional response they trigger in an audience. It’s about the trip they make you take. It’s about letting go, losing the self and allowing a different dimension to take over. Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor in the brilliant interpretation of Perahia and Lupu, from [...]
I love this image by Gary Campbell. And this is one of many, hundreds of expressive photographs taken with a 15$ camera… a Holga. Granted, the price can go up, but you’re still talking something under 50$. What’s so nice about the Holga cameras is that the very thing that makes them cheap (plastic body, [...]
I loved these images for the sheer power of the avalanche cutting through the landscape. There’s something special and raw, untamed in these images. Photographer’s website is here.
I’ve seen his work in Aperture and I look forward to seeing one of his exhibitions live. In “The Automaton”, P. Ventura tells the story of an old man living in the ghetto of Venice during WW2. He does a beautiful job creating models, environments and then telling a cohesive and pretty complex story photographing [...]
In the previous post I laid out the principle I was taught a while ago: when the photograph is about something else than colour, shoot black and white. I kept thinking about iconic images in black and white and one of the strongest I know of is this image made by Paul Strand showing people [...]
In his 50 years retrospective book, Bill Allard talks about how this image changed his perception on colour photography. The image of a wild horse on Sable Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia, where all we actually see is the beautiful golden colour, and the horse’s silhouette. I think that this photograph shows beautifully [...]
Hats off to UK on this one. UK are giving roughly 60 million pounds every year starting now until 2015, to support the music education. The Importance of Music – National Plan for Music Education Can it be that somewhere in Europe, a government is actually realising that culture, being music, design, drama or any [...]
This is the title of a very hard-to-read book. Hard for me, anyways. However, it brings some very valid points about how our perception of the image and what the image should represent has changed over the years, and continues changing. From beauty to realism to abstract to ugly to kitsch and now, apparently, back [...]
This morning in the subway my eyes glimpsed over the newspaper that announced a 4th day of violence in Cairo. It seems so strange to me that the city where I spent a year of my life in and that I come to love be the scene of such violence, one year after the fall [...]
